Months here but nevertheless that news was a good excuse to start unloading tesla shares. Do not, do not feel bad for elon musk though. He is still comfortably worth in excess of 103 billion even with the falloff today. We are following a tale of two president ial candidates in wilmington. Not the same wilmington. President is heading to wilmington, North Carolina. The former Vice President , wilmington, delaware. Both expected to continue concentration in battleground states. At the same time reminding americans that each has the secret to make them feel better there is sentiment surveys out today that really confirm were bummed out as a country. Were getting to the bottom of that. Why are we bummed. Why are we dim on our own prospects here . Cuts across republicans, democrats, im buying this in pockets, even guys like new age are really morose. Im not morose. Depending if lunch is served. Go to Jackie Deangelis what she is following with the dow up 219 points. Where are we with all o
Council of economic advisors director scott good speed. President trump is showing up in bidens backyard. Trumpbacked candidates continue to win major primaries. We have one of our favorite guests who happen to be one of those winners. She joins us on the show next on making money. Charles breaking news, folks, Fund Managers discover the bull market thats right. It is a president ial, political season. So we should expect a lot of flipflops. By the way were getting a lot of them. I got to tell you i lost count on the political front but the one that caught my eye, the flipflop of the week came early in the week when 200 Fund Managers in charge of investing half a trillion dollars changed their positions dramatically over the last few months. These men and women have become more bullish as a plurality of them see a bull market, not a bear market bump. Also they see a doubledip recession. The stock market is more about the economy a year from now, not a proxies for main street today. Bec
Growth rate and job creation, now if you put the fed statement and higher jobless claims together, thats whats pushing stock prices down this morning. Look at it. The dow is off about 100, s p 60, nasdaq about 31, more on that in a second. All right, did you watch night 3 of the Democrats Convention . It was hate trump night. Speaker after speaker layed into the president in personal terms. He gets the blame for everything. Seems to me like the democrats have not gotten over their loss 4 years ago. The president was live tweeting all the way through. We will show you both sides of this, of course, but seems to me like all of the democrats have is hate trump. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart look at the red ink on the markets, first of all, down across the board but not that much. Lets get right at it. Larry kudlow, director of Economic Council at the white house. Larry, negatives this morning. More than 1. 1 million jobless claims, the fed says the virus is hurting growth, back
Another one coming in half an hour from now. Lets go through the techs because they are obviously doing well. Apple, you have to share with apple, tens of millions of shareholders, up again 3 bucks higher, 137. Amazon, now well above the 3,500dollar mark, the company is worth over 1. 7 trillion. Microsoft, also worth 1. 7 trillion with another record high. Up another buck today at 228. We will bring you the rest of the tech titans in a moment, just wait till you see zoom and how much its worth. Politics, you are going to see a sharp contrast in Campaign Styles today. The president continues to fly all over the place answering reporters questions whenever possible. Hes off to North Carolina today. Joe biden will not be getting on a plane when he travels to wilmington, delaware. He never goes far and shies away from reporters questions. This is becoming a political issue, favoring President Trump, hes out and about almost every day. Joe seems unwilling to abandon his basement strategy an
This weekend, but again, these are fast moving pieces. Were looking at uber and lyft that might be exiting california because of some new requirements that they treat their freelance workers like employees. That could be a costly issue for them, so much so even though it accounts for about 60 of their combined business, the state of california alone they would still leave rather than put up with that. In new york city, forget about the virus, forget about eventually opening up gyms next week, the fact of the matter is, new york city is a safety concern right now with residents in once red hot real estate markets saying enough. It has gotten so bad theyre bolting. The visitors upon hearing this, theyre just not coming. So were following that. Right now were also following the drama in washington as at least the house considers coming back to deal with this postal issue. Chad pergram on that. What are we talking about here, chad . Reporter the house of representatives is going to meet on